Client feedback

“Claire offers a very approachable, professional and balanced service, recognising her obligations to the Scheme but providing an awareness of the Employer's perspective. We value Claire's wider industry knowledge and the experience she brings.”

“Their pragmatic approach helps with quick and easy decision making. Another approach might have made things more difficult.”

Mark Assinder,

Bouygues

“Very professional and engaged service.”

Danny Nussbaum,

HR Director, Volvo

“Competent, friendly and very helpful.”

“Stuart is a very experienced and good leader and certainly has met expectations.”

Christopher MacFarlane ,

Bristow Group

“We chose PSGS because of the experience of the team and the feel of the relationship seemed the right fit.”

Paul Staniland,

Chair of Governance Committee, Kier Group Pension Trustees

Paper vs paperless meetings - the pros and cons

Topic:

Market trends

Date published:

Thursday, 25 January 2018

Author:

Clare Owen

As professional scheme secretaries we know the needs of boards and individual pension trustees vary, so we need to be as flexible as possible when it comes to meeting papers.

It is true that producing paper packs is the ‘short straw’ job for members of our specialist scheme secretary team - and they are a risk to family pets as they drop through the letterbox! However, for some pension trustees, the thought of having to go digital and losing the ream of paper to work through can be daunting.

Whilst the trend is definitely towards paperless meetings, what are the pros and cons of the various options available?

Click the image to see a PDF version.

There’s a lot of noise just now about data minimisation and many question whether you should really send scheme information to personal email addresses, even if they are password protected. Pension trustees also need to consider how far they need to worry about possible data issues by other data controller. This might make it a sensible time to take a look at how trustee meeting packs and papers are produced for your pension scheme.

Read Curtis Mitchell's article on the usefulness of technology for online meeting packs

Back to opinions